Ms. Thompson is certified to teach K-8 general education and K-12 Special Education. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Education with a major in Child Development. Ms. Thompson graduated with a Master of Education with emphasis in Special Education in 2007. During her graduate studies, she wrote her Master’s Research Paper on Positive Behavior Support: Analysis of Consistency between Office Discipline Referrals and Teacher Recordings of Disruptive Classroom Behaviors. She is the co-author of the article soon to be published in the Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention/Journal of Behavior Assessment and Intervention for Children.

Ms. Thompson began teaching in 2000 and has taught with research validated, Direct Instruction for over 4 years. She taught as a special education teacher in a resource room and in a self- contained classroom. She has worked with students with a variety of special needs. Ms. Thompson provides individualized, explicit, Direct Instruction based on each child’s needs.

Ms. Thompson specializes in teaching students with learning disabilities to become confident readers. Students who have not learned to read with traditional methods of instruction and are two or more years behind their peers can be taught to be confident readers.